Life and Adventures of an Unfortunate Author
Author : Life
Publisher :
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 38,74 MB
Release : 1878
Category :
ISBN :
A Series of Unfortunate Events: Lemony Snicket
Author : Lemony Snicket
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,65 MB
Release : 2003-05-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0060562250
Book Description
A Warning from the Publisher: Many readers have questions about Lemony Snicket, author of the distressing serial concerning the trials of the charming but unlucky Baudelaire orphans, published under the collective title A Series of Unfortunate Events. Before purchasing, borrowing, or stealing this book, you should be aware that it contains the answers to some of those questions, such as the following: 1. Who is Lemony? 2. Is there a secret organization I should know about? 3. Why does Lemony Snicket spend his time researching and writing distressing books concerning the Baudelaire orphans? 4. Why do all of Lemony Snicket's books contain a sad dedication to a woman named Beatrice? 5. If there's nothing out there, what was that noise? Our advice to you is that you find a book that answers less upsetting questions than this one. Perhaps your librarian, bookseller, or parole officer can recommend a book that answers the question, "Aren't ponies adorable?"
The Wilder Life
Author : Wendy McClure
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 11,85 MB
Release : 2011-04-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1101486538
Book Description
For anyone who has ever wanted to step into the world of a favorite book, here is a pioneer pilgrimage, a tribute to Laura Ingalls Wilder, and a hilarious account of butter-churning obsession. Wendy McClure is on a quest to find the world of beloved Little House on the Prairie author Laura Ingalls Wilder-a fantastic realm of fiction, history, and places she's never been to, yet somehow knows by heart. She retraces the pioneer journey of the Ingalls family- looking for the Big Woods among the medium trees in Wisconsin, wading in Plum Creek, and enduring a prairie hailstorm in South Dakota. She immerses herself in all things Little House, and explores the story from fact to fiction, and from the TV shows to the annual summer pageants in Laura's hometowns. Whether she's churning butter in her apartment or sitting in a replica log cabin, McClure is always in pursuit of "the Laura experience." Along the way she comes to understand how Wilder's life and work have shaped our ideas about girlhood and the American West. The Wilder Life is a loving, irreverent, spirited tribute to a series of books that have inspired generations of American women. It is also an incredibly funny first-person account of obsessive reading, and a story about what happens when we reconnect with our childhood touchstones-and find that our old love has only deepened.
Fortunately, Unfortunately
Author : Michael Foreman
Publisher : Andersen Press USA
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 31,33 MB
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1467743941
Book Description
Mom sends Milo on an errand to return Granny's umbrella to her. Fortunately, Milo doesn't realize that he's about to encounter several unfortunate setbacks with pirates, dinosaurs, and aliens. But it all turns into one amazing, fortunate adventure.
A Series of Unfortunate Events 01. The Bad Beginning
Author : Lemony Snicket
Publisher : Egmont Books (UK)
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,36 MB
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Baudelaire, Klaus (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 9781405266062
Book Description
There is nothing to be found in the pages of A Series of Unfortunate Events but misery and despair. You still have time to choose another international best-seller to read. But if you must know what unpleasantries befall the charming and clever Baudelaire children read on . . . In The Bad Beginning the three youngsters encounter a greedy and repulsive villain, itchy clothing, a disastrous fire, a plot to steal their fortune and cold porridge for breakfast. Then again, why trouble yourself with the unfortunate resolutions? With 5 million copies sold in the UK alone, one might consider Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events to make him one of the most successful children’s authors of the past decade. We, however, consider these miserable so-called adventure stories and the Hollywood film starring Jim Carrey that accompanied the books for children as nothing more than a dreadful mistake.
Zane Grey
Author : Thomas H. Pauly
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 25,13 MB
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0252092112
Book Description
Zane Grey was a disappointed aspirant to major league baseball and an unhappy dentist when he belatedly decided to take up writing at the age of thirty. He went on to become the most successful American author of the 1920s, a significant figure in the early development of the film industry, and a central player in the early popularity of the Western. Thomas H. Pauly's work is the first full-length biography of Grey to appear in over thirty years. Using a hitherto unknown trove of letters and journals, including never-before-seen photographs of his adventures--both natural and amorous--Zane Grey has greatly enlarged and radically altered the current understanding of the superstar author, whose fifty-seven novels and one hundred and thirty movies heavily influenced the world's perception of the Old West.
The Basic Eight
Author : Daniel Handler
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 11,32 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 006186031X
Book Description
Flannery Culp wants you to know the whole story of her spectacularly awful senior year. Tyrants, perverts, tragic crushes, gossip, cruel jokes, and the hallucinatory effects of absinthe -- Flannery and the seven other friends in the Basic Eight have suffered through it all. But now, on tabloid television, they're calling Flannery a murderer, which is a total lie. It's true that high school can be so stressful sometimes. And it's true that sometimes a girl just has to kill someone. But Flannery wants you to know that she's not a murderer at all -- she's a murderess.
Infortunate
Author : Susan E. Klepp
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 15,62 MB
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780271041131
Book Description
A rare memoir from the early eighteenth century by an Englishman who traveled to the New World as an indentured servant.
"Who Could That Be at This Hour?"
Author : Lemony Snicket
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 32,65 MB
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0316225029
Book Description
Before the Baudelaires became orphans, before he encountered A Series of Unfortunate Events, even before the invention of Netflix, Lemony Snicket was a boy discovering the mysteries of the world. In a fading town, far from anyone he knew or trusted, a young Lemony Snicket began his apprenticeship in an organization nobody knows about. He started by asking questions that shouldn't have been on his mind. Now he has written an account that should not be published, in four volumes that shouldn't be read. This is the first volume.
The Life & Strange Surprising Adventures of Daniel Defoe
Author : Richard West
Publisher :
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 25,91 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Book Description
Daniel Defoe's life was packed with incident and drama. Born in the year of the Restoration of the Monarchy after the English Civil War, he remained a nonconformist throughout his life, actively rebelled against James II, travelled the country as a spy for King William and Queen Mary, worked in Scotland on active behalf of the historic Union of Scotland and England, helped launch the South Sea Company, was bankrupted frequently as a businessman, was imprisoned for libel and debt, and died a pauper.
